Quotes

“…bleak, tectonically and ineluctably shifting triptych…the high point of the composer’s career so far...Blackburn is sort of the shadow image of Brian Eno – his enveloping, often darkly majestic electroacoustic soundscapes tend to whoosh and resonate in the lows, sometimes with provocative samples…” — delarue, New York Music Daily, October 9, 2017

“…typified by an oneiric temperament which belies the painstaking assemblage of constituents that characterizes them ... The result is comparable to a protracted hallucination, distinguishable traces emerging from the indefinite awareness of a somewhat mystical inscrutability." — Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes

“…impressive work that blurs the lines between composition, sampling, ambiance, and performance.” — Steve Holtje, The Big Takeover

"[A] wild journey through the dreamscape of a hyperimaginative chorister... All of this music confirms Blackburn as a startlingly original voice, one that encompasses all periods of music history in a uniquely engaging vision." — Marc Medwin, Signal to Noise

“Blackburn creates aural stories though the source of their content and meaning are left open to the imagination and as such Music of Shadows needs to be experienced to appreciate its unique beauty. — Karl Ackerman, AllAbout Jazz

“Steampunk meets classical in an experimental explosion for the ears on this outing. And now you have a better understanding of what "Metal Machine Music" could have been if it was more than Lou Reed telling RCA to bugger off. — Midwest Record

“This is a disc to take you literally “away.” If you’re a fan of ambient (Eno, Roach, Köner, Cluster) with heft, this is a must.” — Mark Keresman, Icon Magazine

“…floated like clouds, to beautiful yet slightly spooky effect… Blackburn is one of the best composers exploring this style.” — Big Takeover

“Philip Blackburn gives us a ravishingly sonic modern adventure that is both highly inventive and thoroughgoingly striking in its sound design. These are works to get inside of, to experience transformatively, to change as the music itself changes. It is something not to be missed.” — Classical Modern Music

"The strange and atmospheric, silvery dark musics and moods of Philip Blackburn manage to intrigue and entrance." – Critic-at-Large